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   by il 15y ago

   Clickable: http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php
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   by il 15y ago

   A few years ago, if you registered an exact match domain for a keyword and built a thin site around it with 4-5 articles you could rank for that keyword pretty easily. I have no idea if this is still possible today.
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   by il 15y ago

   This is where seeing points on comments would have been useful.
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   by il 15y ago

   I do wonder why citizens acting in rational self-interest don't just legislate themselves significantly lower taxes. My guess is that such initiatives would fail mainly because the special interests that are the main beneficiaries of tax do
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   by il 15y ago

   Getting an intro from one of the investor's portfolio companies seems to be the accepted path.
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   by il 15y ago

   Thanks for the link, that is interesting. Of course, there were no startups willing to eschew traditional hiring practices back then.
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   by il 15y ago

   I doubt it, the correlation does not imply causation. My hunch is that the people graduating from college are the kind of people that would find it easier to find a job anyway.
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   by il 15y ago

   The unemployment rate for college graduates as a whole is under 5%. White collar workers are not the ones feeling the brunt of the recession.
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   by il 15y ago

   From the article: "The elegant Flipboard–which McCue recently told me in an onstage interview at the South by Southwest conference in Austin had zero revenues thus far"
10. 220.▲
    by il 16y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333
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    by il 16y ago

    This looks like a potentially great project, but this is probably the most badly designed landing page of all time. The call to action is a really tiny gray icon on the bottom. It made my head hurt just trying to figure out how to sign up
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    by il 16y ago

    I think 400,000 uniques is amazing for a site that's nothing more than a skin on Yahoo search.
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    by il 16y ago

    At least Altavista is still going strong.
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    by il 16y ago

    What will happen to people rejected from YC reject? Will they form a YC reject reject group?
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    by il 16y ago

    This document should be required reading for anyone doing a startup. The biggest takeaway for me from this is that marketing isn't just driving traffic or contacting bloggers. It's a comprehensive process of optimizing landing pages, tracki
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    by il 16y ago

    Thanks, that post provides a bit more context. I guess the debate is basically "At what point do you start spending on customer acquisition?". The early days of any platform are a somewhat unique perfect storm of opportunity. Much like the
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    by il 16y ago

    I think it comes down to the fact that, considering the work involved and that the majority of startups fail, it's never an economically rational decision to work on a startup. Realistic to most people means in the "real world" you follow a
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    by il 16y ago

    Good thing Zynga, his most successful portfolio company didn't listen to his advice. Much of their initial growth came from buying users. Only later is the origin myth of "we built something cool and it just went viral" put into place.
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    by il 16y ago

    Is this really a startup or more of a side project? Do you plan to expand to other sites/blogs, sort of like the business book summary market?
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    by il 16y ago

    It's a reddit thing (ask me anything).
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    Hacker Monthly April 2011 Issue(hackermonthly.com)

    56 points by il 16y ago|3 comments
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    by il 16y ago

    You're going to have a hard time selling a site without significant revenue on Flippa. I would recommend removing the listing until you've tested monetization strategies(maybe small sponsored links in the emails you send). If you sell this
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    by il 16y ago

    Well done Joseph, congrats on the continuing growth! People mulling startup ideas take note: A great way to build something people want is to find a process that has become entrenched and stagnant and identify and remove points of friction
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    by il 16y ago

    I'm cautiously optimistic that this piece is satire, although you can never be sure.
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    Instead of creating a lean startup, build it to flip.(readwriteweb.com)

    2 points by il 16y ago|1 comments
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    by il 16y ago

    This seems reasonable, except that the #1 rule of investing is that past performance does not guarantee future results. If the team is so great and VCs are investing in the team, then why is the UI/usability of Color so bad? I think the rea
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    by il 16y ago

    I thought much of Twitter's revenue came from licensing their firehose to Google, etc.
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    by il 16y ago

    There's always something to raid. Someone is hosting bitcoin.org, developing the client, etc. The government hates competition.
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    by il 16y ago

    They might have been fishing for a different answer.
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    by il 16y ago

    In other words, Facebook alone is now worth more than the entire 1999 bubble(or at least the top 24 public companies).